[1]Remember Club Med? I pictured it as city folk in grass skirts doing a lousy rendition of the hula, though it was one way to vacation alone. What’s the alternative when you’re single, not interested in going solo to a foreign land (like me) and most everyone in your circle is married? When my close friend, Miguel, booked an Italian trip for May, I wondered if I should meet up with him, and take my first real vacation in years. Miguel and I are travel-tested. We’ve been to Asia and Europe together, and share a modest appetite for sightseeing, and a hardy one for café life, shopping and good food. I fussed about the money, but what an opportunity. I’M GOING TO ROME!
Image: Reaching, 2010, by Noura Bouzo [1], a female artist from Saudi Arabia, who recently participated in one of the first mixed exhibition art shows ever to take place in Riyadh.